Category Archives: Teaching and Learning

Dreams of February 2014

Posted on November 15, 2015 by randomyriad

Dream #1 Look at that parking job- I said pointing at an adjacent rooftop where a the back wheels of the tiny indigo car were on the wrong side of the parking barrier, a foot from a 40 foot drop down … Continue reading →

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The Best Places Fill You Up and Let You Go: A Note to Generations and The Community Around It

Posted on September 27, 2015 by randomyriad

I am in Transition from preschool work into a career in physical therapy. Yesterday I said good-bye to the best job I have ever had and my favorite educational community. So many people impacted my life as a teacher, and … Continue reading →

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The Importance of A Committed Life: Hubert Dreyfus Talks About Teaching and Learning and the Challenges of Living with 21st Century Technology.

Posted on May 9, 2015 by randomyriad

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
https://vimeo.com/121251057

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What baboons and Hannah Arendt can teach us about human behavior that could save us from ourselves

Posted on March 30, 2015 by randomyriad

If I had control over the curriculum of high schools in the U.S., two videos, the 2012 film Hannah Arendt and the documentary “Stress,The portrait of a Killer”, would be shown in a course all students would have to take called … Continue reading →

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Time Travel Interview Part II

Posted on September 2, 2013 by randomyriad

In Which I answer the last 18 questions posed by Marcel Proust’s aunt to the 14 year-old Proust. I gotta say these are pretty tough questions for a 14 year-old. I know if my aunt asked me these questions when … Continue reading →

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